(a) The Director of Public Service is hereby granted the authority to declare a water shortage emergency, and to place restrictions on the use and consumption of water as the Director of Public Service may deem appropriate. Further, in addition to the authority herein granted applying within the corporate limits of the City, it shall also apply to:
(1) The City's Water Extension System, which includes Colerain, Sunset Heights, Ferryview and Crawford Heights, and
(2) All areas outside the Extension Area for wholesale bulk sales.
(b) The determination of whether a water shortage emergency shall be declared is one reserved to the sole and sound discretion of the Director of Public Service.
(c) In order to be enforceable hereunder, all water shortage emergency declarations shall be in writing. Further, they shall be posted conspicuously at the City Building and they shall be published at least one time in a newspaper of general circulation in the area affected prior to any of the below listed penalties being imposed.
(d) Any person, firm or corporation who uses or consumes water during the period of a water shortage emergency, in violation of the written order of the Director of Public Service, shall be penalized as follows:
First Offense: A verbal or written warning shall be issued, and their account "red tagged" as a violator;
Second Offense: Water service shall be terminated for forty-eight hours, and a one hundred dollar ($100.00) turn-on fee assessed; and
Third Offense: Waterline shall be disconnected at the main and the regular and standard fee shall be charged to reconnect same after the emergency situation is over.
(Ord. 89-07. Passed 3-2-89.)